Gordon H Hanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 202274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon H Hanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon H |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanson |
| SIGNATURE | HANSON G H |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCSD and NBER UCSD |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U.S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect economic growth, patterns of trade, education choices, and the earnings of workers with different types of skills. The chapters in this volume go beyond the traditional question of how the inflow of for…
The Indonesian Economy: Trade and Industrial Policies
Against the backdrop of growing anti-globalisation sentiments and increasing fragmentation of the production process across countries, this book addresses how the Indonesian economy should respond and how Indonesia should shape its trade and industrial policies in this new world trade environment. The book introduces evaluation not on tariffs but on new trade instruments such as non-tariff measures (SPS, TBT, export measures and beyond border mea…
Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s
Even before the Great Recession, US employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major force behind both recent reductions in US manufacturing employment and—through input-output…
The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts are most visible in the local labor markets in which the industries exposed to foreign com…
Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in US local labour markets between 1980 and 2007. Labour markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labour markets susceptible to computerisation due to specialisation in routine task-intensive activities instead experience occupati…
Trade Adjustment: Worker-Level Evidence
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner…
The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for US imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house imp…
Exporting Christianity: Governance and doctrine in the globalization of US denominations
Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK
Journal Article Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK Get access Gordon H. Hanson, Gordon H. Hanson UCSD and NBER UCSD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Craig McIntosh Craig McIntosh UCSD and NBER UCSD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 122, Issue 561, 1 June 2012, Pages 707–726, https:…
The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade
In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade patterns is greater South-South trade. China and India have booming demand for imported raw materials, which they use to build cities and factories. Industrial…
The Great Mexican Emigration
In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two-fifths of Mexican labor flows to the United States over the last two decades of the twentieth century. Net emigration rates by Mexican state birth year cohort display a strong positive correlation with the initial size of the Mexican coh…
Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants
Immigration and the Economic Status of African‐American Men
The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low‐skilled black men, fell precipitously between 1960 and 2000. At the same time, their incarceration rate rose. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in employment and incarceration. Using data from the 1960–2000 US censuses, we find that a 10% immigration‐induced increase in the supply of workers in a particular skill group reduced the black wage of that grou…
The Governance of Migration Policy
In this paper, I examine high‐income country motives for restricting immigration. Abundant evidence suggests that allowing labor to move from low‐income to high‐income countries would yield substantial gains in global income. Yet, most high‐income countries impose strict limits on labor inflows and set their admission policies unilaterally. Making immigration more attractive would require creating mechanisms that limit the negative impacts of lab…
Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, And Policies
Skilled immigration into rich countries and competition for talent and professional skills are of major concern among nations today. Comprehensive immigration reform addressed to illegal immigration predictably foundered in Congress last year. This revived the question of skilled immigration and was hastily added to the proposed reform agenda in the hope that it would bring more pro-immigration troops into battle. Immigration reform still failed …
Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earningsin Mexico
This chapter examines the regional impacts of emigration on labor supply and labor market earnings in Mexico. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 9.2 documents how migration behavior varies across regions of Mexico and discusses the criterion used for selecting which Mexican states to include in the sample. Section 9.3 describes how changes in labor supply vary across high- and low-migration states in Mexico, and compares mean earnings a…
Public Finance and Individual Preferences Over Globalization Strategies
Do preferences toward globalization strategies vary across public‐finance regimes? In this paper, we use data on individual preferences toward immigration and trade policy to examine how pre‐tax and post‐tax cleavages differ across globalization strategies and state fiscal jurisdictions. High exposure to immigrant fiscal pressures reduces support for freer immigration among U.S. natives, especially the more skilled. The magnitude of this post‐tax…
Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it possible to examine the composition of legal and illegal populations and the time-series covariates of illegal labor flows. I then consider the supply of and d…
Market potential, increasing returns and geographic concentration
Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms
In recent decades, growth of world trade has been driven largely by rapid growth of trade in intermediate inputs. Much of input trade involves multinational firms locating input processing in their foreign affiliates, thereby creating global vertical production networks. We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to examine trade in intermediate inputs for further processing between parent firms and their foreign affiliates. Among our main fin…
International Migration, Self‐Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States
We use the 1990 and 2000 Mexican and U.S. population censuses to test Borjas's negative‐selection hypothesis that the less skilled are those most likely to migrate from countries with high skill premia/earnings inequality to countries with low skill premia/earnings inequality. We find that Mexican immigrants in the United States are more educated than nonmigrants in Mexico; and were Mexican immigrants to be paid according to current skill prices …
Immigration Policy and the Welfare System: A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti
This book draws together and unifies analysis of immigration into the major EU countries and the US, making digestible and transparent the major trends and dramatic developments of the past decade. While the influence of the welfare state on immigration incentives is a key issue, various other influences on both legal and illegal migration are analyzud, together with the implications of migration for the market outcomes on these two continents
Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration
In this paper, we examine the impact of enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico border on wages in U.S. and Mexican border regions. The U.S. Border Patrol polices U.S. boundaries, seeking to apprehend any undocumented entrants. It concentrates its efforts on the Mexican border. We examine labor markets in border areas of California, Texas, and Mexico. For each region, we have high-frequency data on wages and person-hours the U.S. Border Patrol spends poli…
U.S.–Mexico Integration and Regional Economies: Evidence from Border-City Pairs
Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border by Gordon H. Hanson and Antonio Spilimbergo. Published in volume 89, issue 5, pages 1337-1357 of American Economic Review, December 1999
International Migration, Self‐Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States
We use the 1990 and 2000 Mexican and U.S. population censuses to test Borjas's negative‐selection hypothesis that the less skilled are those most likely to migrate from countries with high skill premia/earnings inequality to countries with low skill premia/earnings inequality. We find that Mexican immigrants in the United States are more educated than nonmigrants in Mexico; and were Mexican immigrants to be paid according to current skill prices …
The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts are most visible in the local labor markets in which the industries exposed to foreign com…
Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets
We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in US local labour markets between 1980 and 2007. Labour markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labour markets susceptible to computerisation due to specialisation in routine task-intensive activities instead experience occupati…
Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants
Increasing Returns, Trade and the Regional Structure of Wages
Trade theories based on increasing returns have two predictions for regional economies: employment concentrates in industry centres, and regional nominal wages are decreasing in transport costs to industry centres. I test these hypotheses using data on regional manufacturing in Mexico before and after trade liberalisation. Employment and wage patterns are consistent with the idea that market access matters for industry location. Under the closed …
Immigration and the Economic Status of African‐American Men
The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low‐skilled black men, fell precipitously between 1960 and 2000. At the same time, their incarceration rate rose. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in employment and incarceration. Using data from the 1960–2000 US censuses, we find that a 10% immigration‐induced increase in the supply of workers in a particular skill group reduced the black wage of that grou…
Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in Mexico
During the 1980s in Mexico the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers widened. The authors assess the extent to which this increased wage inequality was associated with Mexico's sweeping trade reform in 1985. Examining data on 2,354 Mexican manufacturing plants for 1984-90 and Mexican Industrial Census data for 1965-88, they find that the reduction in tariff protection in 1985 disproportionately affected low-skilled industries. Goods from…
Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK
Journal Article Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK Get access Gordon H. Hanson, Gordon H. Hanson UCSD and NBER UCSD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Craig McIntosh Craig McIntosh UCSD and NBER UCSD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 122, Issue 561, 1 June 2012, Pages 707–726, https:…
The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade
In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade patterns is greater South-South trade. China and India have booming demand for imported raw materials, which they use to build cities and factories. Industrial…
U.S.–Mexico Integration and Regional Economies: Evidence from Border-City Pairs
The Governance of Migration Policy
In this paper, I examine high‐income country motives for restricting immigration. Abundant evidence suggests that allowing labor to move from low‐income to high‐income countries would yield substantial gains in global income. Yet, most high‐income countries impose strict limits on labor inflows and set their admission policies unilaterally. Making immigration more attractive would require creating mechanisms that limit the negative impacts of lab…
Agglomeration, Dispersion, and the Pioneer Firm
Agglomeration, Dispersion, and the Pioneer Firm
Foreign direct investment and relative wages: Evidence from Mexico's maquiladoras
Spillovers, foreign investment, and export behavior
Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms that penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning effects or establishing commercial linkages. We examine whether spillovers associated with one firm's export activity reduce the cost of exporting for other firms. We identify two sources of spillovers: export production in general and the specific activities of multinationals. From a simple m…
Increasing Returns, Trade and the Regional Structure of Wages
Trade theories based on increasing returns have two predictions for regional economies: employment concentrates in industry centres, and regional nominal wages are decreasing in transport costs to industry centres. I test these hypotheses using data on regional manufacturing in Mexico before and after trade liberalisation. Employment and wage patterns are consistent with the idea that market access matters for industry location. Under the closed …
Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border by Gordon H. Hanson and Antonio Spilimbergo. Published in volume 89, issue 5, pages 1337-1357 of American Economic Review, December 1999
Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in Mexico
During the 1980s in Mexico the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers widened. The authors assess the extent to which this increased wage inequality was associated with Mexico's sweeping trade reform in 1985. Examining data on 2,354 Mexican manufacturing plants for 1984-90 and Mexican Industrial Census data for 1965-88, they find that the reduction in tariff protection in 1985 disproportionately affected low-skilled industries. Goods from…
U.S.–Mexico Integration and Regional Economies: Evidence from Border-City Pairs
Immigration Policy and the Welfare System: A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti
This book draws together and unifies analysis of immigration into the major EU countries and the US, making digestible and transparent the major trends and dramatic developments of the past decade. While the influence of the welfare state on immigration incentives is a key issue, various other influences on both legal and illegal migration are analyzud, together with the implications of migration for the market outcomes on these two continents
Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration
In this paper, we examine the impact of enforcement of the U.S.-Mexico border on wages in U.S. and Mexican border regions. The U.S. Border Patrol polices U.S. boundaries, seeking to apprehend any undocumented entrants. It concentrates its efforts on the Mexican border. We examine labor markets in border areas of California, Texas, and Mexico. For each region, we have high-frequency data on wages and person-hours the U.S. Border Patrol spends poli…
Market potential, increasing returns and geographic concentration
Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms
In recent decades, growth of world trade has been driven largely by rapid growth of trade in intermediate inputs. Much of input trade involves multinational firms locating input processing in their foreign affiliates, thereby creating global vertical production networks. We use firm-level data on U.S. multinationals to examine trade in intermediate inputs for further processing between parent firms and their foreign affiliates. Among our main fin…
International Migration, Self‐Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States
We use the 1990 and 2000 Mexican and U.S. population censuses to test Borjas's negative‐selection hypothesis that the less skilled are those most likely to migrate from countries with high skill premia/earnings inequality to countries with low skill premia/earnings inequality. We find that Mexican immigrants in the United States are more educated than nonmigrants in Mexico; and were Mexican immigrants to be paid according to current skill prices …
Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States
In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it possible to examine the composition of legal and illegal populations and the time-series covariates of illegal labor flows. I then consider the supply of and d…
Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earningsin Mexico
This chapter examines the regional impacts of emigration on labor supply and labor market earnings in Mexico. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 9.2 documents how migration behavior varies across regions of Mexico and discusses the criterion used for selecting which Mexican states to include in the sample. Section 9.3 describes how changes in labor supply vary across high- and low-migration states in Mexico, and compares mean earnings a…
Public Finance and Individual Preferences Over Globalization Strategies
Do preferences toward globalization strategies vary across public‐finance regimes? In this paper, we use data on individual preferences toward immigration and trade policy to examine how pre‐tax and post‐tax cleavages differ across globalization strategies and state fiscal jurisdictions. High exposure to immigrant fiscal pressures reduces support for freer immigration among U.S. natives, especially the more skilled. The magnitude of this post‐tax…
Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, And Policies
Skilled immigration into rich countries and competition for talent and professional skills are of major concern among nations today. Comprehensive immigration reform addressed to illegal immigration predictably foundered in Congress last year. This revived the question of skilled immigration and was hastily added to the proposed reform agenda in the hope that it would bring more pro-immigration troops into battle. Immigration reform still failed …
The Great Mexican Emigration
In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two-fifths of Mexican labor flows to the United States over the last two decades of the twentieth century. Net emigration rates by Mexican state birth year cohort display a strong positive correlation with the initial size of the Mexican coh…
Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants
Immigration and the Economic Status of African‐American Men
The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low‐skilled black men, fell precipitously between 1960 and 2000. At the same time, their incarceration rate rose. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in employment and incarceration. Using data from the 1960–2000 US censuses, we find that a 10% immigration‐induced increase in the supply of workers in a particular skill group reduced the black wage of that grou…
The Governance of Migration Policy
In this paper, I examine high‐income country motives for restricting immigration. Abundant evidence suggests that allowing labor to move from low‐income to high‐income countries would yield substantial gains in global income. Yet, most high‐income countries impose strict limits on labor inflows and set their admission policies unilaterally. Making immigration more attractive would require creating mechanisms that limit the negative impacts of lab…
Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK
Journal Article Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK Get access Gordon H. Hanson, Gordon H. Hanson UCSD and NBER UCSD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Craig McIntosh Craig McIntosh UCSD and NBER UCSD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 122, Issue 561, 1 June 2012, Pages 707–726, https:…
The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade
In this paper, I examine changes in international trade associated with the integration of low- and middle-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade patterns is greater South-South trade. China and India have booming demand for imported raw materials, which they use to build cities and factories. Industrial…
The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for US imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher unemployment, lower labor force participation, and reduced wages in local labor markets that house imp…
Exporting Christianity: Governance and doctrine in the globalization of US denominations
Trade Adjustment: Worker-Level Evidence
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China’s spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner…
Economics (29 works) · Labour economics (15 works) · Global trade and economics (14 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Wage (9 works)